I find it interesting , not what he has said but what he hasn’t. I have had a problem with Wenger’s tactics for a long time , that’s coaching , but from a managerial point of view ,I think he did a good job. I have been reading the details of the deals for Mkhitarayn and Aubameyang and the vast amounts money involved and taking account of the only actual Arsenal supporter on the board Ken Friar’s comment last week that he was given a budget and was told to work within it. Why do you think he left one year early ?

Look at it this way having spent all of his time at the new stadium in austerity .Suddenly as he is about to leave , the board employs new people and amazingly they find a vault of cash behind the chairman’s sofa.

I don’t think we will hear the whole story straight away , but eventually we might find that it was not only the American influence but the banking sector of the board whose natural hesitation to spend held us back.

By leaving a year earlier than the board expected he has left them in a position that they did not want or actually prepared for . Behind the scenes they may well have someone lined up but now they need either to bring it forward or appoint a stop gap .

I would not be surprised to see Bould gets it as an interim .

"Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth."

According to a few extremely reliable sources (look at me all ITK ) our new manager is going to be Arteta. It's done barring any bizarre last minute changes.

I assume we will be going with Mikel as head coach, Sanllehi as Director Of Football to oversee everything away from the actual coaching and tactics side of things and then Mislintat to be in firm control of player recruitment (obviously with Mikel involved in some capacity).

Whatever happens, we must get behind our new manager. Many fans have been calling for change for a long time, and now when the board would like to take a new direction people are still moaning

If it goes wrong then we will deal with it if it comes. But let's be positive and excited!

ForeverRed wrote:Hello folks, long time no speak! Hope you're all well.

According to a few extremely reliable sources (look at me all ITK ) our new manager is going to be Arteta. It's done barring any bizarre last minute changes.

I assume we will be going with Mikel as head coach, Sanllehi as Director Of Football to oversee everything away from the actual coaching and tactics side of things and then Mislintat to be in firm control of player recruitment (obviously with Mikel involved in some capacity).

Whatever happens, we must get behind our new manager. Many fans have been calling for change for a long time, and now when the board would like to take a new direction people are still moaning

If it goes wrong then we will deal with it if it comes. But let's be positive and excited!

Hello FR it`s been a long time since you posted. Hope you are well and will be posting on a regular basis again

ForeverRed wrote:Hello folks, long time no speak! Hope you're all well.

According to a few extremely reliable sources (look at me all ITK ) our new manager is going to be Arteta. It's done barring any bizarre last minute changes.

I assume we will be going with Mikel as head coach, Sanllehi as Director Of Football to oversee everything away from the actual coaching and tactics side of things and then Mislintat to be in firm control of player recruitment (obviously with Mikel involved in some capacity).

Whatever happens, we must get behind our new manager. Many fans have been calling for change for a long time, and now when the board would like to take a new direction people are still moaning

If it goes wrong then we will deal with it if it comes. But let's be positive and excited!

Hello FR it`s been a long time since you posted. Hope you are well and will be posting on a regular basis again

There are people who wanted Wenger out but are now complaining about the possible direction the club are going in. Personally, Wenger has gone and I will miss him, but I'll be happy to see how things go. The new structure is an interesting one and, despite Arteta not being my first choice in a traditional Manager role, he may be ok as a coach within a structure. I'm intrigued.

Wenger was bloody good though.

"Arsene is a perfect fit for Arsenal. This is the classiest club out there" - Graeme Souness.

Wenger was a good manager for the club but tactically flawed. Lets not forget that there has been a slow but consistent decline in our performance as other teams found out his style and countered it. We now have a new path to tread but Arteta , although I have respect for the man , smacks of more of the same . Should mhe get the post I hope he has the nous to include other voices in his thinking to enable the team to do different things on different days.

"Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth."

My philosophy will be clear. I will have everyone 120 per cent committed, that’s the first thing. If not, you don’t play for me. When it’s time to work it’s time to work, and when it’s time to have fun then I’m the first one to do it, but that commitment is vital. Then I want the football to be expressive, entertaining. I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us. I’m 100 per cent convinced of those things, and I think I could do it.

I think you need to adapt. You can have an idea of a system, but you need to be able to transform it depending on the players you have – how much pace you have up front, how technical your team is, what types of risk you can take and whether your players are ready to take those risks. It’s important to analyse your players because you can’t always play the same way. There have to be different details and changes in how you approach things, and you have to look at how you can hurt whoever you are playing against. Is there something they don’t like to do? If so, we’re going to make them do plenty of it. Then the most important thing for the manager is that, the Friday before the game, you imagine what’s going to happen on the Saturday. And if what happens on Saturday is not what I had planned, then it’s not been good enough from me.

Interesting if that's his interview speech.

"Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth."

potter wrote:Arteta on mangement and his ambitions written 3 years ago.

My philosophy will be clear. I will have everyone 120 per cent committed, that’s the first thing. If not, you don’t play for me. When it’s time to work it’s time to work, and when it’s time to have fun then I’m the first one to do it, but that commitment is vital. Then I want the football to be expressive, entertaining. I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us. I’m 100 per cent convinced of those things, and I think I could do it.

I think you need to adapt. You can have an idea of a system, but you need to be able to transform it depending on the players you have – how much pace you have up front, how technical your team is, what types of risk you can take and whether your players are ready to take those risks. It’s important to analyse your players because you can’t always play the same way. There have to be different details and changes in how you approach things, and you have to look at how you can hurt whoever you are playing against. Is there something they don’t like to do? If so, we’re going to make them do plenty of it. Then the most important thing for the manager is that, the Friday before the game, you imagine what’s going to happen on the Saturday. And if what happens on Saturday is not what I had planned, then it’s not been good enough from me.

Interesting if that's his interview speech.

Yes interesting but it`s easy to write how you will do the job, you or I could have written that but it doesn`t mean we would become great Managers it`s a different matter when you are dealing with a squad of filthy rich prima donna`s. The days when players actually supported the club they played for like Tony Adams are over it is every man for himself now like Sanchez he couldn`t wait to get away when United came calling with a £500k a week sweetener.

Well we are going into interesting times and our expectations must me pitched sensibly for the season ahead.

Our failure over recent years has simply been that any team always fancied their chances of scoring against a defence which got leakier season by season. This is the number one priority for the new manager and his team.

I am worried that Arteta - being an ex-player and here throughout most of the defensive decline of the Club - might not do this. He might be a ‘yes’ man that ticks all the boxes for the Board but not us, the fans!

We need a new start, new ideas; fresh faces and someone not afraid to do the difficult pruning job on this current squad.